Hi Sandro, On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:36:17AM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > i'm not very familiar on how people uses this tasks packages, but if > (say) 90% of the python modules are python3-only, how can you use that > 10% that's python2 only? you cant write code unless it's very > specialized to that specific module and uses *none* of the py3k-only > packages; most likely that module will get removed if there is no py3k > support or if there is, we're gonna remove the py2 package anyway. > > the reason i left them as comment is for the science team to > "remember" they used to be there and decide at a later time what to > do: is the package still in Debian and been ported to py3k? add it > back. was it removed? remove the commented line.
I actually also was concerned about the need to remember those packages. If a package is only Suggests than it shows up on the Blends tasks pages - if it is commented out it is not. Unfortunately maintainers do not read the code of the tasks pages frequently. :-( > > If the packages are commented out they become absolutely > > invisible while per policy suggested packages do not need to exist and > > thus the metapackages would not block a removal of the packages > > themselves. > > the way we're tracking the removal (via > http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/index.html) considers also the > Suggests fields as a rdeps. Also i dont see anything about not being > avaible as a valid state in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends > for suggests OK, so I just kept your changes since I think this contributes better to the Python2 removal. > > Since you felt a need to change this in Git I guess you are interested > > in a soonish upload. > > indeed i am :) Just uploaded. > > So if we have some consensus about the item above > > I'll upload to get the changes applied. > > i gave you my opinion, but i'm happy with whatever the team comes up > about it, if that means we can upload soon :) No further comments from the team - upload done. Thanks a lot for your contribution Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
